Saturday, April 05, 2003

Friday, April 04, 2003

Instead, people are increasingly turning to alternative sources of information like web logs, or ‘blogs’. One particularly popular blog, ‘Where is Raed?’ — written by a Baghdad resident under the pseudonym ‘Salam Pax’ — provided an immensely readable account of life in Iraq till March 24. Salam Pax has not updated his blog thereafter, sparking off fears for the well-being of the man many are already comparing to Anne Frank. Predictably, some are also casting aspersions on his authenticity.

"Newspapers described the debate, and many in Britain were dismayed. The controversy over the debate inspired another, larger, noisier debate at Oxford, with Winston Churchill's son, Randolph, leading the debate against the pacifists. And the pacifists won by a larger margin: 750 to 138.

"Similar debates at the London School of Economics resulted in a pacifist resolution that was supported unanimously. Aberystwyth University in Wales voted 186 to 99 for pacifism. Manchester University voted for pacifism 371 to 196. And students in Canada and New Zealand voted with the Oxford pacifists. Hitler was watching and, contemptuous of pacifists, he was encouraged.

Those who predicted that the Iraqi army would surrender, that the Iraqi population would welcome the coalition with open arms and that the Iraqi leadership would collapse were wrong. Unfortunately, the "effects-based" strategy embraced by the Pentagon was based on these conditions. What has transpired is a case of arrogance resulting from ignorance of the enemy.

Sometime Saturday while Secretary of State Colin Powell was at the UN, an Iraqi television reporter asked him a "smart-ass" question and Powell, without missing a beat gave the following answer and left him speechless:

"Mr. Secretary, isn't true that only about 13% of all Americans under the age of 25 know where Iraq is on a map?"

03/18/2003
"I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war," Daschle said in a speech to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. "Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country."

1998
Senator Tom Daschle,the Senate Majority Leader, "Look, we have exhausted, virtually, our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that, what other option is there but to force them to do so?"

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